Deaths
- 12 March – Lillian Masediba Ngoyi "Ma Ngoyi", a dressmaker, political activist and trade unionist, who suffered from heart trouble, dies at the age of 68 in Johannesburg
- June – Expelled African National Congress official, Tennyson Makiwane is shot dead
- 4 June – Patrick Makau, Umkhonto weSizwe member, and his child (9) are killed in a bomb attack on two houses in Manzini, Swaziland.
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“On almost the incendiary eve
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